Planned Parenthood “deals out nothing but deception, death, personal devastation, and moral degradation," Pittman wrote in the email, which was a reply to a May 24 email from Planned Parenthood urging lawmakers not to cut funding for it. "Never will I agree to give that bloody, indecent, immoral organization one penny. I will not be satisfied until it is outlawed.”

The Planned Parenthood email had tried to make the case that it actually reduces the incidence of abortion in North Carolina by providing birth control services to 61,000 women a year, in addition to thousands of cancer and STD screenings. Pittman pushed back against that claim in a comment to the Independent Tribune. “My sources tell me that 75 percent of [Planned Parenthood’s] income comes through abortions,” he told the paper. “To say that they would try to reduce the incidence of abortion is like saying a baker would go around trying to get people to stop eating bread.”

Planned Parenthood did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Eric Fehrnstrom, senior campaign adviser for Mitt Romney, said on Sunday that issues pertaining to women's reproductive rights, such as abortion and birth control, were "shiny objects" meant to distract voters from the real issues.
"Mitt Romney is pro-life," he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos. "He'll govern as a pro-life president, but you're going to see the Democrats use all sorts of shiny objects to distract people's attention from the Obama performance on the economy. This is not a social issue election."